Rated Match Policy

The UKBGF policy is supplemented by local policies, which give club managers the freedom to define local rules that work for the way their events are run.

Details of the local policy will be dependent on the specifics of the Club to which it pertains, but is required to adhere to the following principles:

The Manager must record results fairly and completely. Any form of selective reporting of results, including at a player’s request, must be forbidden

The policy must establish clear rules for eligibility of a match. Members must know, or be able to deduce from the policy, whether their match will form part of the national record before the first roll of the dice

The policy will not allow exceptions due to a player being ignorant of it

Only matches played as part of an organised club event (e.g. a tournament) may count towards the ratings

Players must not be able to select their opponents, in order to prevent gaming of the ratings system

Use of artificial aids beyond those required for scorekeeping are prohibited. This will generally preclude online matches from permissibility due to the ubiquity of automatic pipcount display in online clients